Chapter 32
Chapter 31
Sitting in the waiting hall, Shen Mo had a vague premonition in his heart, looking at the dark sky outside, always worried about the coming storm. Xiao Tang sat next to him and kept cracking melon seeds, while Lin Qiang kept smoking. Shen Mo felt that if he was with them for a long time, his life would be shortened for a few years. He went to Yunnan this time mainly for the purple seal and unraveling the Gu among the students, and the two of them were for investigating the case.
Xiao Tang kept talking while eating melon seeds, and Shen Mo didn't even know how many mouths he had.
"Professor Shen, didn't you say that your students were infected with witchcraft, and they would attack if they were too far away from the tomb? Why didn't you send them back together?"
"It won't be painful to return to the control range of Gu poison, but it will only treat the symptoms and not the root cause, and it will only get deeper and deeper after a long time."
"It's time to board the plane, where is Shen Koudan?" Lin Qiang put out the cigarette and looked at his watch.
Just as he was talking, a person ran over with big bags and small bags, but it was Jiang Xiaosi.
"Mentor!"
Shen Mo frowned: "Why are you here?" Didn't you tell her to study hard at school?
"Field experience is more valuable than classroom theory!" Jiang Xiaosi chuckled, "Besides, with me here, I can help you find the location of the plasma faster and more accurately."
Going there would definitely be dangerous, Shen Mo was about to order her to go back, when he looked up, he found Jiang Liu also walking over with a bag. She won't even bring her father with her, will she?
"Uncle, I asked Jiang Liu to help." Shen Koudan hurriedly said from the side.
"Help?" Shen Mo was displeased. Xiao Tang was very happy, and approached enthusiastically, after all, Jiang Liu saved his life before, and his skill is obvious to all.
Jiang Liu smiled faintly, and nodded to greet the others. He actually didn't want to get involved in this matter, but Jiang Xiaosi was going, so he didn't feel at ease, so he followed.
Shen Mo said nothing more, turned around and walked towards the boarding gate, still carrying his sandalwood case in his hand. The team of six set off in a mighty way. After getting off the plane, they rented a minivan.
"Little cat, you drive."
"Okay meow!"
Shen Kodan opened a cloth bag with him, and a wisp of almost invisible ghost floated into the control system. Seeing that a few people were idle and bored, Xiao Tang invited everyone to play poker.
Shen Mo has always been motion sick, closed his eyes and fell asleep, Lin Qiang was flipping through the documents in his hand to study the case. So Jiang Xiaosi, Jiang Liu and the others started playing. Xiao Tang also complained for a while that the space was too small to set up a mahjong table.
The destination of their trip is the Gaoligong Mountains on the border between China and Myanmar. This mountain range runs north-south, starting from the southern edge of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau in the north and ending in the north of Dehong, Yunnan Province. It is more than 500 kilometers long and spans five latitude zones. There are many volcanic hot springs in the hinterland. It has always been a sacred mountain in the local area. There are many famous temples and ancient temples.
The car drove to a small village of the Hani nationality at the foot of the mountain. Because a group of people had already come to the archaeological excavation before, it was more convenient to settle down. Everyone rested in the village for one night, planning to go to the mountain early the next morning.
At night, Jiang Xiaosi and Shen Koudan lived in the same room. Shen Koudan was washing up when he saw Jiang Xiaosi poking his head in.
"What's the matter, kid?" Shen Koudan smiled gently.
Jiang Xiaosi stroked his chin and looked at her face which was different from the daytime again, even her voice was slightly different.
"Miss Koudan, is this what you really look like?"
"No." Shen Koudan shook his head.
"Why do I feel familiar?" Jiang Xiaosi scratched his head.
"Haha, did you recognize it? Isn't it very beautiful?" Shen Kou Dan raised his phone, with a string of elevators hanging on it.
"I drew this after my favorite star, Nie Xiaoen. Do you know her? It's the one who has been very popular recently and just won the Film Newcomer Award? But the mouth is from another singer I like."
Jiang Xiaosi with black hair, took the phone to see the star printed on the elevator card.
"What kind of facial features does Xiaosi like? I'll help you draw when I'm free." Shen Koudan threw her a small book, which was full of beautiful men and women from all over the world, all of which were cut out by Shen Koudan when he was bored looking through fashion magazines. of.
"Really? Make me taller and more mature, so it's okay to be twenty years old?"
"certainly."
Jiang Xiaosi's heart is about to move, she really wants to grow up quickly.
"Why do you never see people with your true colors? Sometimes it's quite dangerous to think about it. If someone comes up to me and tells me it's you, I don't know whether I should believe it or not." Shen Koudan always pretends to be someone else, But in fact, you are the easiest to be pretended by others.
Shen Koudan was stunned for a moment, she had never thought about this, so she couldn't help feeling a little dazed.
"Sister Kodan, has the teacher always been like this?"
"What's it like?" Shen Koudan climbed into bed, Jiang Xiaosi also curled up under the blanket, without air conditioning or heating, shivering with cold. She really wanted to sleep with her father, but she was too embarrassed not to be at home after all.
"It's just cold and unkind."
"Uncle is very good." Shen Koudan patted her side and asked Jiang Xiaosi to go to sleep with her. Jiang Xiaosi jumped out of bed and got into her bed as much as he wished for.
"Does he... have a girlfriend?"
"No, uncle hates women very much."
"Huh?" Jiang Xiaosi was startled, "Does he like men?"
"Of course not, I just don't like to contact and deal with women. At least I haven't seen any female friends around him in these years."
"I also think the professor hates me a bit, but he still treats me very well."
"That's because he treats you like a child."
"Has the professor been abandoned by women before?"
"Abandoning can't be called abandonment, it should be considered betrayal..." Shen Koudan recalled many years ago, when there was a fire in front of his eyes, he couldn't help closing his eyes, but the fire was still raging.
"Although Uncle was indifferent before, he was not so heartless. Since then, he has hardly trusted anyone anymore."
Jiang Xiaosi's heart seemed to be pinched hard: "Did that woman give him a cuckold?"
Shen Kodan laughed: "Where are you going, they are just friends."
"Later? Did the woman admit her mistake? Did the professor forgive her?"
"It's all in the past, go to sleep..."
Jiang Xiaosi closed his eyes, but couldn't fall asleep. There seemed to be a faint fragrance lingering at the tip of his nose, which was the scent of the incense that had been burned all the year round in Shen Mo's room.
The next day, a group of people took their equipment and walked into the mountains. It was already winter, and the wind got stronger as we went up the mountain. Everyone was dressed tightly, and it was not convenient to move. In addition, the mountain road was difficult to walk. After walking for five or six hours, we walked through a dense forest before finally seeing the mountain where the ancient tomb was. . Among them, Jiang Xiaosi and Xiao Tang were weaker in physical strength. They chatted and laughed along the way at the beginning, but they didn't have the energy to talk later.
When Jiang Xiaosi was tired, Jiang Liu hugged him, but Xiao Tang had no one to hold him, and he slowly fell to the end.
"Xiao Tang, come on, see, Pink Fluttering is waving to you on the top of the mountain." Jiang Xiaosi suddenly shouted to him.
Xiao Tang staggered, fell to the ground and couldn't get up for a long time.
Lin Qiang turned around and scolded: "If you can't climb a mountain, how can you be a policeman!"
Xiao Tang nodded embarrassingly, followed the team out of breath, squinting at Jiang Xiaosi.
The last time he investigated Ye Miao’s case, because Pink Piao Piao from “Peach Strange Talk” was also suspected, so he went to investigate. The woman claimed to be psychic. I don't know if I fell in love with Xiao Tang or what, and then asked him out every three days. Originally, Xiao Tang would love to be accompanied by beautiful women, but Pink Piao Piao's hobbies are too tough. The entertainment activities are either haunted house roller coaster, rock climbing or bungee jumping, and there are always many strange but innocuous supernatural events happening with her. Xiao Tang is timid, unable to withstand her tossing, but also weak and easy to bully, unable to avoid her nonsense.
It so happened that Jiang Xiaosi bumped into her when she went out a few days ago, and she actually said that she was his girlfriend. Xiao Tang wondered when he had a girlfriend. Jiang Xiaosi clapped his hands happily, saying that he knew that he was going to be lucky.
Xiao Tang wants to cry but has no tears, this peach blossom is too pink, he can't bear it. Especially every time he went out on a date, Pink Piaopiao talked to the empty place from time to time, feeling that it was not the two of them who went out but a group of them, and he broke out in cold sweat on his forehead.
Shen Koudan became interested when he heard it, and asked curiously: "Who is Pink Piao Piao?"
"Xiao Tang's girlfriend, a reporter for "Peach Oddities"."
"Little Tang, are you in a relationship?"
"No, no..." Xiao Tang quickly shook his head, "We are just ordinary friends."
"It's clear that you are holding hands." Jiang Xiaosi made faces at him.
Lin Qiang said coldly: "I asked you to investigate the case, so you went to pick up girls."
Xiao Tang was about to cry, and hurried forward to explain desperately.
Enter the dense forest and find the specific location of the ancient tomb. A basketball court-sized flat has been opened up around it.
Shen Mo said to Jiang Xiaosi as usual in class: "This is a relatively rare underground tower-style mausoleum. It occupies a small area and has a simple structure, but we don't know how many floors it has. For technical reasons, it is only excavated into the ground now. The third floor, so I can’t be sure if there are tomb robbers. There is basically nothing on the upper three floors, and there are no clues to prove the identity of the tomb owner. The tomb should be from the Tang and Song Dynasties.”
"What about the architectural style?" Jiang Xiaosi asked while taking pictures.
"It's not the style of ethnic minorities. The tombs are all square towers made of giant bluestones. They are tightly closed, and the structure of each floor is about the same size."
Jiang Xiaosi took out his mobile phone from his arms, and checked the GPS pretendingly.
"The location of the plasma is right below here."
Xiao Tang was surprised: "What are they doing to transport so much blood into this tomb?"
Shen Mo shook his head: "Anyway, it's not a good thing, there is an evil spirit everywhere. Go down and have a look first."
Several people brought oxygen cylinders and necessary tools and drilled down the passage. Shen Mo and Lin Qiang walked in front, Jiang Liu and Shen Koudan were behind, and Jiang Xiaosi and Xiao Tang were in the middle. Shen Mo pinched the soil on the surrounding wall and smelled it in front of his nose, it was very deep brown red, and there was a faint stench of blood.
Xiao Tang was a little afraid of the ancient tomb because of the incident of Long Banqiu last time. Jiang Xiaosi was already used to it, looking around.
"Does the passage enter from the top of the tomb?"
"No, this tower tomb is sealed layer by layer, and there is no connecting passage. It is like an airtight box stacked on top of each other. The top of the tomb is a huge jackstone, no less than three meters thick. If you drill it open forcibly, you may cause damage. The entire tower tomb collapsed, so the opening was from the side."
"Can't we dig out the whole tower? Or open a passage directly to the ground, then we can know how many floors there are, and then go directly to the bottom floor. The main coffin should be there, right?"
"No, the burial is too deep, not to mention the surrounding rock is too hard, it is impossible to excavate by hand alone, and it is difficult to transport large equipment."
"I'm just curious, how those people built the tower underground." Jiang Xiaosi frowned. What made her even more puzzled was that the position of the blood plasma she perceived was at a very lower position, and those people How did it go down?
There was no wind in the passage, and when they arrived at the tomb, Shen Mo walked in first. The searchlight glanced around, and the inside was less than 100 square meters, very empty, and four walls could be seen. It is like a dull empty box, and also like a huge sarcophagus, which makes people feel very depressed and uncomfortable staying in it.
"Not even a mural?" Jiang Xiaosi looked at the empty wall, "Maybe it's not a mausoleum, but some kind of ritual place."
"The coffin was found on the third floor, and the other people's Gu poison should be there."
So several people came out from the first floor and drilled through the passage to directly enter the third floor. There was also nothing in the third floor, but several huge coffins were neatly arranged, which looked a little weird and terrifying.
"Have you ever opened a coffin?"
"It has been opened, there are some residual bones, but there are no funeral objects."
Jiang Xiaosi tilted his head, stared at the center, and slowly walked in: "This is not a coffin chamber, what is it..."
"Don't touch it!" Shen Mo hurriedly stopped her.
Jiang Xiaosi carefully looked at the half-person tall square stone, and put it there in an ordinary way, not knowing what it was for.
Suddenly, Xiao Tang, who was standing aside, shivered, frowned and said, "It's so cold."
Jiang Liu dragged Jiang Xiaosi and Shen Koudan back a few steps, and said loudly, "Be careful!"
Shen Mo waved his right hand at this time, sprinkled a handful of white powder, and there was a strong musk fragrance floating in the air. Jiang Xiaosi lowered his head and found that the ground was covered with worms as thick as little fingers , the pale yellow squirmed towards several people quickly, only Xiaotang didn't have it.
"Back back!" Shen Mo formed a seal with both hands, and swept his fingertips to the ground, a silver light overflowed, like a trickle, drawing a dividing line between the crowd and the insects' fingertips.
As if being imprisoned by something, all the worms hesitated in front of the line, swaying left and right, and more worms continued to crawl out of the bluestone, Jiang Xiaosi knew where the stone was, and it was clearly a giant worm egg.
The Gu insects that crossed the line were swept away by Jiangliu's copper coins, and they were broken into two pieces and turned into powder. Shen Koudan directly used the fire talisman to ignite a large area.
Shen Mo grabbed Xiao Tang's left arm, a cold light flashed in his right hand, the sharp knife had cut open his sleeve, raised the knife in his hand, and picked out a worm from his flesh. The worm was more than twice the size of the others, and it jumped onto the coffin, and then it seemed to be melting as if it was about to penetrate the stone and burrow into it.
But seeing Shen Mo raised his hand casually, the dagger forcefully nailed the Gu worm to the coffin.
"Catch a few worms and go back to detoxify them." Shen Mo put on black gloves at some point, stretched his hand across the thread, quickly grabbed one, squeezed it lightly, and burst the head of the worm, and then threw it away. into a small box. Seeing this, the online Gu worms crawled back one after another, retreating into the bluestone eggs.
Shen Mo waited for them all to retreat, poured a layer of oily blood-red liquid on the bluestone, flipped his wrist, and there was a small cluster of flames in his palm, with a light flick between his fingers, the flames were shot out like bullets, and the bluestone exploded instantly Ash annihilation. Shen Mo stood in front of the crowd, cheering in black, while Jiang Xiaosi hid behind him, didn't even feel the wind, only heard the loud noise.
(end of this chapter)